The Works of Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 4Samuel Etheridge, Jun'r., 1815 - Philosophy |
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... always in a state of perfect indif- ference , without any incitement , motive , or reason , to act , or not to act , to act one way rather than another , our active power , having no end to pursue , OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE WILL . 11.
... always in a state of perfect indif- ference , without any incitement , motive , or reason , to act , or not to act , to act one way rather than another , our active power , having no end to pursue , OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE WILL . 11.
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... perfect- ly clear . No man deliberates whether he ought to choose happiness or misery . No honest man deliber- ates whether he shall steal his neighbour's property , When the case is not clear , when it is of importance , and when there ...
... perfect- ly clear . No man deliberates whether he ought to choose happiness or misery . No honest man deliber- ates whether he shall steal his neighbour's property , When the case is not clear , when it is of importance , and when there ...
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... perfect man . The man who has a determined purpose of carrying on a course of action which he knows to be wrong , is a hardened offender . Between these extremes there are many intermediate degrees of virtue and vice . ESSAY III . OF ...
... perfect man . The man who has a determined purpose of carrying on a course of action which he knows to be wrong , is a hardened offender . Between these extremes there are many intermediate degrees of virtue and vice . ESSAY III . OF ...
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... perfect indifference , to do this or that , or nothing at all . The active power would either not be exerted at all , or its exertions would be perfectly unmeaning and frivolous , neither wise nor foolish , nei- ther good nor bad . To ...
... perfect indifference , to do this or that , or nothing at all . The active power would either not be exerted at all , or its exertions would be perfectly unmeaning and frivolous , neither wise nor foolish , nei- ther good nor bad . To ...
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... perfect regularity , as if he had been taught , and got the habit by long practice . By the same kind of principle , a new - born child , when its stomach is emptied , and nature has brought milk into the mother's breast , sucks and ...
... perfect regularity , as if he had been taught , and got the habit by long practice . By the same kind of principle , a new - born child , when its stomach is emptied , and nature has brought milk into the mother's breast , sucks and ...
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Page 128 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat.
Page 304 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 416 - Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me.
Page 303 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 303 - will not suffer us to be tempted above what we are able to bear...
Page viii - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 128 - Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste. He ended; and his words, replete with guile, Into her heart too easy entrance won...
Page 418 - ... and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible, but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought or ought not expresses some new relation or affirmation...
Page iv - I have said, that the question itself is altogether improper; and it is as insignificant to ask whether man's will be free, as to ask whether his sleep be swift, or his virtue square; liberty being as little applicable to the will, as swiftness of motion is to sleep, or squareness to virtue.
Page 303 - Repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (Ezek., 18: 27-32).